- 1). Cite the interview using the same formatting style used throughout the paper. An interview on YouTube is considered a published interview for citation purposes. Use the guideline that applies to your situation. As a general rule, APA Style is used for social science papers, MLA Style is used for liberal arts papers and Chicago Style is used for history papers.
- 2). Cite the YouTube interview using APA style. APA Syle only references interviews, published or unpublished, in-text as a personal communication (this means no entry in the reference list).
If you are citing a personal interview published on YouTube, and the person interviewed is named John Smith, and you interviewed him on January 5, 2011, cite the interview as:
Interviewee's name not already given: cite (J. Smith, personal communication, January 5, 2011) in-text
Interviewee's name already introduced elsewhere in sentence: cite (personal communication, January 5, 2011) in-text
If you are citing an interview conducted by a third party and published on YouTube, cite the interview as an online video. Collect the author's name or screen name, the date, the title of the video and the YouTube URL.
If the YouTube video's author uses the screen name "Sunshine2011", and the date associated with the clip is August 28, 2011, and the title of the video is "Interview with Jane Doe-Part 1", and the YouTube URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch123456789, cite the video in the reference list as (only indent the second and subsequent lines):
Sunshine2011. (2011, August 28). Interview with Jane Doe-part 1 [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch123456789. - 3). Cite the YouTube interview using MLA Style.
You can either cite it as a published interview (broadcast) or as a web-based only interview. MLA no longer requires URLs for online sources, so only include them if the instructor requires it or if you need them for personal reference.
To cite the interview as a published interview, you will need the interviewee's name, the title of the interview (if none is given, use the generic title of "Interview" or Interview with Interviewer's Name), the date of the interview, the type of media, the name of the website and the date accessed.
For example, if the interviewee was Jane Doe, and the title of the interview was Interview with John Smith, and the interview took place on August 28, 2011, and it is a web file on YouTube and was accessed on September 1, 2011, the interview would be cited as:
Doe, Jane. Interview with John Smith. August 28, 2011. Web. YouTube. 2011.
To cite a video clip of an interview that is only published on the web, collect the director's name (last name, first name, dir.) or screen name, the title of the interview clip, the title of the website, the date it was published to the site, the media type and the date accessed.
For example, if the director's screen name is Sunshine2011, and the title of the interview clip is Interview with John Smith, and the interview was published to YouTube on August 28, 2011, and it is a web file on YouTube and was accessed on September 1, 2011, the interview would be cited as (only italicize YouTube):
Sunshine2011, dir. "Interview with John Smith." YouTube. 28 August 2011. Web. 1 September 2011. - 4). Cite the YouTube interview using Chicago style. Only use the access-date if the information in the interview is time-sensitive.
Collect the name of the website (in this case YouTube), the title of the interview video clip, the author's name or screen name and the date it was published to YouTube.
For example, an interview posted as a video clip on YouTube titled "A Personal Story on Living with Cancer" by Sunshine2011 with the date August 28, 2011 is cited as (only indent the first line of each entry):
For the notation (italicize YouTube) -
9. YouTube; "A Personal Story on Living with Cancer," video clip by Sunshine 2011, August 28, 2011.
For the References List -
YouTube; "A Personal Story on Living with Cancer," video clip by Sunshine 2011, August 28, 2011.
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